![]() ![]() Tragic, right? Websites like came along during the Internet boom and made it a bit less painful to hear the words “out of print”, but the decision was by no means good news. Only a dedicated fan willing to scan the shelves at used book stores would ever find your work again. In the case of a title that only ever came out in print, going out of print would be the death rattle for your book. The more complicated (and somewhat painful) subtext is that your book didn’t sell well enough to warrant continued printing. ![]() What does that mean? The easy answer is that your publisher will not be producing new printed copies of your book. Still, there is one major similarity the arrival of that first book almost always produces moments of pure pride and surges of excitement frozen in the author’s memory.įor almost all of us who write and publish fiction with traditional publishers, the day will come when that first novel goes out of print. ![]() I have mixed feelings about this myself, not just as a writer, but as a mother. Background Photo: / Cover Art: Īn author’s first novel is often compared to a first baby. ![]()
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